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Lenovo’s ThinkPad Yoga line has become more popular and well known for pairing a flexible and bend-back design with ThinkPad level durability and usability. It is provided with 12.5 inch display size, keyboard, 2.9 pound framework, and an accurate touchpad.

Design of ThinkPad Yoga 260:

Like other Lenovo laptops ThinkPad Yoga 260 is also has the same visual appearance. The raven black framework gets small splashes of color from a blinking red light in the ThinkPad logos on the deck and lid along with the red TrackPoint nub and buttons. It consists of a couple of powerful hinges which allows the screen to bend back a full 360 degrees so that you can use it in presentations, tablet modes, etc. While coming to screen it remains same in all the different modes but bounced a bit in laptop mode. Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 uses “lift and lock” keyboard which becomes untraceable when you rotate the screen. ThinkPad Yoga 260 is light weighted and is made of carbon fiber hybrid material on the lid and the base is made of magnesium plastic blend. It is provided with a size of 12.20 x 8.66 x 0.70 inches and 2.9 pounds and is comfortable to carry in any bag.

Display and Audio:

Lenovo laptops ThinkPad Yoga 260 consists of 12.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 display which helps to offer sharp images and strong viewing angles. The color output seems to be worthless and according to colorimeter its screen reproduces only 68.5 percent of the RGB color gamut that means it is not able to show some shades.

While coming to audio it consists of hinge mounted speakers which contains enough power to fill a small room. It also consists of software named Dolby Audio software which helps you to switch between the sound profiles for music, games, movies, etc. or can manually adjust a graphic equalizer.

Stylus and WRITEit Application:

Lenovo Yoga 260 also comes with an active stylus which is nothing but ThinkPad Pen Pro. This pen provides 2,048 levels of pressure for great handwriting experience and for highly accurate drawing purpose. Unlike many other laptops that come with styluses Lenovo Yoga 260 includes the Vaio Z Flip, and also contains a built-in compartment for its pen. When docked the pen charges its internal battery and Lenovo also revealed that in just 20 seconds of time it will get 19 hours’ worth of charge in just 20 seconds.

Keyboard, Touchpad, and TrackPoint:

While coming to keyboard all the Lenovo ThinkPads are well known for having the best laptop keyboards. Yoga 260 offers strong feedback, deep travel and comfortably curved keys. It offers 60’s 3.6 x 2.2-inch button-less touchpad which provides smooth and accurate navigation around the desktop. It is also featured with a red TrackPoint pointing stick between the G and H keys on its keyboard. This stick is mainly used to highlight the text, navigation purpose, draw boxes, etc.

Microsoft’s PowerPoint for iPad at last create it possible to open, edit, create, and present native PowerPoint files on your iPad, no file alteration is required. This is a enormous benefit for anyone who often uses PowerPoint on a Mac PC but likes the iPad’s portability.

Like the other Office for iPad application, PowerPoint needs you to have an Office 365 subscription either Office 365 Home Premium for $9.99 per month, the upcoming Office 365 Personal for $6.99 per month or one of numerous business options.

You can employ any cloud storage service for your documents as long as it’s OneDrive, a SharePoint folder or OneDrive for Business.

PowerPoint can understand .ppt files but prompts you to hit a link which converts them to the newer .pptx format before they can be edited. All the PowerPoint files are imported from my Mac opened without an event.

Microsoft refuse to comment specifically on if or when some of these missing feature would be added, but did not point out that the company has made relatively a few updates to Office 365 in the previous year and noted that it is listening to customers’ feedback.

Pros

Strong support for transitions, tables, graphics

Marking pen and laser pointer tools for use when presenting

Broad variety of templates and themes

Fast performance with large presentations

Cons

No animations or transitions of entity objects

Cannot modify themes of existing presentations

Cannot crop photos or import videos keen on presentations

Bottom Line

Important remains the leading presentation app for the iPad but PowerPoint isn’t far behind

You almost certainly won’t buy an Office 365 subscription just to get it but if you purchase a subscription to use Word or Excel, PowerPoint.

Mushkin, well-known for producing memory modules had something to introduce in CES 2016. It was none other than 2 SSDs as you may expected of. The first of those devices is a 2TB one named as “Reactor”, well, it is the right time to forget conventional 500GB SSDs. Any name hasn’t given to the 4 TB model till now.

Both of these SSDs are built under Silicon Motion’s SM2246EN controller, in order to balance the amount of wear and tear that can affect SSDs. From this controller’s first release in 2013, it was a vital component in most of the SSDs. But, now as this controller has included 3D NAND support (apart from increased 2TB storage support), it became not-so-complex for Mushkin to produce high capacity models like Reactor.

Since this controller does not support more than 2TB, Mushkin has to do a trick to create 4TB model. For that, they put two Reactor SSD models in a single PCB and joined both of these SSDs into a single JBOD using another controller. Mushkin is really confident about this product’s 4TB function as a whole. But, the company itself does not guarantee consistent read and write performance during heavy workloads.

For datacenter industry, Mushkin has also introduced another SSD with Phison PS3110-S10 controller. It comes under Mushkin’s Striker series of storage capacity 1.92TB. More and more third party manufacturers are setting up for new SSD devices using the same Silicon Motion’s controller. Definitely, this shows the imminent support of Mushkin SSDs described here.

Well, the most interesting thing of the 4TB model would be its price. According to Mushkin, it won’t be more than $500 so that it is not an unaffordable product anymore. Even Samsung’s 850 PRO 2GB SSD cost more than $700, illustrates how reasonable it would be.

Even though various companies are releasing their SSD brands in consecutive intervals, it doesn’t consider that an average user prefer an SSD to an HDD. Off course, overall cost of the product really matters. But this is not a case forever. As more manufacturers like Mushkin, come with new SSDs powered with latest technologies, we can foresee a huge divergence of SSD applications from data centers to average users. Well, let us wait for that.

The use of smartwatches is increasing day by day. It is used for various purposes like for making phone calls, messages, sending images, etc. Every smartphone makers are now try to expand their technique in wearable devices. International Data Corporation (IDC), releases quarterly figure on sales of wearable tracking devices last week. It shows that Fitbit continued their first position with 22% of the market share. When Apple announced their first wearable device, it seems that this device might go beyond all. But among various smartwatch makers Fitbit held on top. Apple watch has mostly hurt other smartwatch makers including Samsung which drop down of top five position.

There are various factors which lead Fitbit success. The main reason behind this is its retail distribution process. The company has excellent retail distribution, along this company expand its field outside US also. The latest product, Fitbit Surge and Fitbit charge is also selling well. This company signing a big deal that gives fitness devices to their employees. It includes almost 335,000 workers in this program.

When we talk about Apple smartwatches, the company is doing quite well and this is due to its affordable Sport line. The release of Apple OS2 watch is also the reason behind the downfall in various smartwatches. Apple smartwatch is one of the main reason behind the downfall of Samsung smartwatch, in result of this Samsung smartwatch fell out from top five in this quarter. Apple OS2 has built in capabilities which allows different apps to take better advantage, this helps in growing your interest on Smartwatches.

Xiaomi which is one of the leading Android smartphone maker in china, surfing third position in the list of International Data Corporation. You can take Xiaomi Smartwatches in just $15. This company is growing very quickly around the globe and it offers very interesting contrast to Apple as well. China which is the fastest growing market of Smartwatches and it leads company to compete with various feature sets and on price value.

34% of the Smartwatch market shares hold by other small industries. This shows that Fitbit is going to get more challenge from other smart wrist watch makers in coming years. Google is also releases its smartwatch operating system which doesn’t taking off. Sometimes Corporate Wellness Program offers some financial incentives to the people to use these devices. It’s a great market win for Fitbit which consistently with its position when there is downfall in the Smartwatches.

GeForce Experience uses the power of the NVIDIA cards to provide optimal game settings customized to your PC. It keeps your drivers up to date and automatically optimizes your game settings. With a single click, optimize your game’s graphics. When you start up GeForce Experience, first of all it will scan your library (which games are compatible for your PC). To optimize it, just click on it in the left sidebar and then select the Optimize button. After selecting optimize button you are ready to start playing.

AMD graphics cards are cutting edge with modern technologies that deliver ultimate performance and astonishing intelligence. It automatically adjusts your graphics settings for optimal performance on your PC. When you start up AMD Cards: Gaming Evolved, first of all it will scan your library (which games are compatible for your PC). To optimize it, just click on it in the left sidebar and then select the Optimize button. After selecting optimize button you are ready to start playing.